How to Create Custom WordPress Hooks for Cleaner Code
As WordPress projects grow, codebases often become tightly coupled, fragile, and difficult to extend. The most common cause is logic being hardwired directly into templates, plugins, or theme files with no clear extension points. Custom WordPress hooks solve this problem. They allow you to decouple logic, improve maintainability, and make your code extensible without rewriting […]
How to Create a Cron-Safe Background Queue in WordPress
Large tasks like imports, API synchronizations, report generation, and cleanup jobs often run during normal WordPress page loads — slowing down the user experience, increasing TTFB, and sometimes causing outright timeouts. A cron-safe background queue offloads heavy operations into controlled batches that run outside the request lifecycle. At Wisegigs.eu, we engineer background processing systems that […]
Understanding WordPress Hooks: Actions vs Filters (Beginner-Friendly)
WordPress is powerful not because of themes or plugins alone, but because of its hook system. Hooks allow developers to modify, extend, or react to WordPress behavior without editing core files. Once you understand how hooks work, customizing WordPress becomes significantly easier and far more stable. At Wisegigs.eu, we rely heavily on hooks when building […]
WordPress Monitoring Tutorial & Snippets: How to Keep Your Site Stable Without Technical Complexity
Keeping a WordPress site fast and stable requires ongoing visibility into performance, uptime, and user experience. Many site owners assume that stability comes purely from hosting or plugins, but long-term reliability depends on continuous monitoring and structured operational habits. You don’t need to be technical to understand these concepts—just consistent with how you observe your […]